The responsory-communions’ melodic variants
Abstract
Styles as aesthetic categories have always played an important role in clarifying the chronology of the Old Roman and Gregorian chant traditions. Whether it is a question of the general stylistic features of the melodies or of the characteristics of specific genre layers, the question of style remains an inescapable point of reference for research. In my article, I put forward a method of chant-chronology that proves to be independent of strict definitions of style and genre. In the course of musical-philological analysis of the melodic variants of chants that simultaneously perform several liturgical functions, the so-called responsory-communions, it has become apparent that the above well-established analytical criteria sometimes lead to erroneous results, since it is not always the chants with archaic features that bear the ancestral, early status.References
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